as protesters against the government and the death sentences for those involved in last year's football stadium continue to vent their anger at. the french military machine rolls. fears that european country could be seeking to form a territory. and britain's prime minister david cameron finally commits to holding a referendum on breaking away from the e.u. . new wave of criticism.

just in time for the weekly. live in moscow with the week's top stories. and to cairo now where stones and tear gas canisters are being thrown back and forth by police and government protesters on the fourth consecutive day of street violence in egypt so far at least forty one people have been killed the deadliest shook the city of port site where crowds infuriated by the death sentence handed down over a football stadium riot trying to storm a prison is true with an update from the capital. here in the capitol there are clashes raging between protesters and security forces on they call me on a key areas near government buildings this is just a tear gas in the air here in downtown cairo rocks have also been exchanged security have upped their presence around say government buildings as the focus of

the anger here for protesters is very much against morsi ministration they say that so the president is not going to just admit he can't run the country and he hasn't listened to their demands to the unrest here is still continuing its various attempts to put saeed as well as the situation in egypt really descend into a bit of a crisis president mahmoud morsi counseled his travel plans yesterday and met with his national defense council to discuss the deepening crisis across the country and one of the upshot of this meeting was that they may consider an emergency status we don't know the details of what that would actually mean but of course here in egypt they lived under most state of emergency for thirty years in the barak which led to protests being banned and censorship being legalized something people would really be very angry with and want to avoid to get to see if the situation continues on the streets of cairo imports i need and we see further deaths and they may resort to emergency status but here we don't actually know what's going on quite yet of course a lot of anger towards the president this started just at the end of last year when

he pushed through what was very seen as an unpopular constitution drafted by islamist dominated constituent somebody people also you say that he has not made any of the changes that were called for during the joiners of the fire volution two years ago so he's really lost quite a lot of legitimacy on the streets at the moment we're seeing a very restive undivided egypt. and meanwhile as we know gunfire reported to the funerals of some of those killed on saturday in port saïd violence has flared there after people became enraged at the capital punishment verdict delivered to twenty one defendants accused of taking part in a stadium massacre last year and your consumer rights activist helmi says whatever excuses the government selling the public's not buying it. but the people of course . many of them think that. the people who were convicted were actually scapegoats for the actual criminals. who are supposed to be in jail or like you know christians in the ministry of interior or in the military who are in power

when the courts i think you're happen so many people think that that was that was an i just decision to. use twenty first people and and you've been made scapegoats for the other big person in the in the too many faiths who should be in jail and should be convicted on the other side where the the ultrix and larry in their supporters here in cairo i think after you know after more than ten months participating and calling for a just sit and wait for the martyrs if you like the very thick was the beginning of the process of serving justice for their markets from all to and this is part of the the polarization that egypt is going through it can squat some time now it feels like the the government is trying to you know like. this in the second and

a great deal of aleutian their chance to show people that they're actually doing something to to get just there but this is not a convincing for for many people. in this town attention now to mali where the french intervention force is continuing its advance helping the local unelected government beat back islamic militants several french allies including britain and the u.s. are also providing support for the military offensive but some experts warn the campaigns a move to recall a nice the african country has autism or financial reports. the french have died headlong into the military operation in mali but the discussion is still ongoing as to exactly why the western nation has put boots on african soil again cost in money and people's lives. official rhetoric remains in line with the mantra of the war on terrorism but some statements suggest another layer of france's

defense minister has declared total become questar mali is the main goal with the president echoing french troops twenty five hundred so far who remain in the region for as long as necessary they're attempting to militarize huge sections of africa so that they will to monopolize access to the city to the resources this is the day we're seeing this effect the complete specifically in relations deal with the states i know we're seeing it with problems in other parts of the european union through european union troops actually being used i mean some of the money conflict as well which has been relatively rare in the past the gold and especially the iranian deposits make the country very attractive nearly eighty percent of all france's energy generated by almost sixty nuclear power plants is dependent on african reigning in. french companies must go on the offensive and fight to the growing influence of rival china for stake in africa's increasingly competitive markets all this is neocolonialism but with a simpler france is far from the only nation to have and defended its interests in

africa the french have intervened around fifty times in africa in the last fifty years since official declination contact in regimes from rebels like into booty to central african republic all fighting regimes like in libya france is always driven by sown economic or geopolitical interests this time is meant to. decode the cold eyes asian wasn't actually over apart from economic there is also strategic importance this part of africa opens routes to the red sea and the middle east britain and france half a century support over eighty four feels like a remake but with many others involved but that doesn't mean the round mutual interests here. if you ask people in mali you'd be surprised they were waiting for somebody to say. them because their army is not equipped to train to oppose these militants but it was necessary to intervene in mali people see this operation as

a liberation they hardly wanted to live under islamicists mysie had that is the philosopher in the former tunisian embassador to unesco his view on the positive impact for the people of mali is that it is actually a colonial throwback. it so you want to come you resources put then it's logical that locals profit as well those riches go to improve their lives after but that's not the case this way is wild the kind of slavery in mali among the richest national resources in africa remains one of the poorest nations the world for many years there's been in paris was the headquarters of the country's ministry of colonies the body which administered french territories overseas today that ministry no longer exists and former french colonies are independent someone that alone no idea is all just part of history and that history may be repeating. from paris. in the meantime france has stepped up security measures at home fearing

reprisal attacks from islamists who are about to avenge the mali intervention of dozens of foreign hostages were killed when terrorists seized a gas plant in algeria that happened just this past week and a middle east expert thinks that further retribution strikes will likely be focused not in france but in africa. i don't think europe is under threat from any terrorist group obama is already said that the walk the phrase war against terrorism is a date and the united states will abandon it and sort of ironic that the french are now taking it up the french intervention which is many people in the south applaud because they're completely desperate but if this intervention goes on it'll get worse and worse because these guys are going to fight back and then you will have probably small groups of people taking revenge as we saw in our jury and incidentally the role the french played in algeria bice helping in encouraging the

government to stop an election made way has also left an impact on that concrete so there's no doubt it will be stabilized and as well. now the outgoing u.s. secretary of state has admitted the arab spring revolts which washington was supporting that to a rise of extremism and ultimately shattered security in the region hillary clinton testified before lawmakers about last year's attack on the american consulate in libya which so four u.s. diplomats killed she took responsibility for failures that led to the assault while stressing that washington should continue to exert its influence across the arab world in the meantime john kerry is expected to take over from clinton but some analysts doubt a new face will end up overhauling any of america's foreign policy. or the clinton legacy is pretty much i think the legacy of american wars and a counterterrorism policy that has usurped the usual prerogatives of the state

department what hillary clinton did which was more important than anything else during her four years as secretary of state was to be part of the coalition the phalanx if you will oprah war people which really left to president obama no choice but to go along with the forty thousand troops that the military was demanding that crystal is demanding for afghanistan john kerry will not be able to fundamentally change the course of u.s. foreign policy which is again set in motion a set in stone if you will because of the power that the cia and the military really wield over the direction of u.s. relations with so much of the world particularly the middle east and now increasingly you know africa as well and there is very little chance that john kerry will challenge any of the fundamental directions of u.s.

policy such as for example the drone war in pakistan. it's good to have you with us here an aussie today i still to come for you in the program he may have hung on to his job i should say but he has rather failed to convince his voters israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu to clinch a majority in the country's parliament but only by a narrow margin he's now struggling to form a stable coalition. and the british prime minister's opponents get hot under the collar as david cameron pledges to hold a referendum on the country's possible e.u. exit this is though if his party wins the next election stories just ahead.

more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are today.

this is r t and here comes the r.t. world update now starting with brazil where the number of deaths in a massive fire nightclub in the southern part of the country has now risen to two hundred forty five the tragedy took place after a band forming in the club started launching fireworks off the stage however they set fire to the insulation foam in the ceiling the venue was packed with people at the time reports say there was only one exit and panic spread as people try to get out the police and medics are still removing bodies from the scene. thousands of rallied in washington calling for improvements to gun control nationwide among the participants were the residents of newtown connecticut an elementary school massacre last month killed twenty six a president obama has unveiled the most sweeping proposals for curbing gun violence in two decades including background checks and a ban on military style assault weapons the proposals that have divided the nation

with about half of americans insisting it is their right to bear arms without restrictions. a roadside bomb has killed at least ten policemen in afghanistan in the southern province of kandahar detonated next to a police truck and just as officers had finished refusing another explosive device this is the third such attack in the past twenty four hours which in total have claimed the lives of more than twenty people. at a quarter past the hour moscow time the global political and financial elite met up in the swiss resort of davos this week to discuss ways of trying to pull europe out of the crisis salty's katie pulled the reports there were many promises made and this of course going on the world economic forum but also ultimately at the end of the day no clear solutions were offered. double's twenty thirty is now the world's most influential policymakers pack up their design a suit and head home at least me hair admiring the beauty of the swiss alps as you

can see but also trying to look beyond them to work out what exactly was achieved well first we had russian prime minister dmitry medvedev now he's worried about the need to diversify the economy away from oil and crack on with structural reforms but you know we've heard that before that was something. we also had british leader david cameron he came here he had some tough words to say for tax avoiders but really the only topic people wanted to press him on here was the father he will be calling an e.u. referendum for the british public in twenty seventy the business community here they felt that that was a gram of cheer and now this man and that it would do the economy no good or ready challenge and in a fragile situation with dismal growth figures just released europe was of course in the spotlight as predicted we had european central bank president mario draghi

he said the spending cuts are necessary austerity is the way forward and german chancellor angela merkel she agreed with him she reiterated that and this really comes the same way that we've had a process ongoing in greece we've had a backlash in germany as well as spain's unemployment for the youth coming out at sixty percent we also have the prayers from the arab world they came together valiant to improve the future for the people in the region but no clear strategy on on how to do that so you know i can tell you there's been a lot of talking a lot of pledging a lot of promise saying but no clear cut poll that says by have a real fairing that the interesting conversations happened behind closed doors. r.t. davus. well the annual world economic forum are certainly shaken up by the speech this week by the british prime minister david cameron as are his ardor farm reports the long anticipated address on the u.k.'s future relations with the e.u.

and certainly ruffled a few feathers at home as well. british prime minister david cameron has threatened to redraw the map of europe his pledge to hold a referendum on whether the u.k. should remain in the e.u. if they can win the next election in twenty fifty basically he wants more pounds return from brussels to westminster and will try and renegotiate britain's terms of membership but he has warned that he is not successful then the u.k. would probably vote to head towards the exit i was his long awaited european speech and dines at the place many of those euro skeptics within his tory party there are many doubts is u.k. business leaders for example say that even talking about an exit at this stage will create uncertainty and could scare away tension investors germany's chancellor angela merkel has said that perhaps a compromise is needed but of a e.u. members are less sympathetic than mark says the e.u.

is not a self service where members can cherry pick the legislation that happens speaking said the e.u. would simply become a mess so well david cameron has to solve any internal squabbles within the party cheekily of placing the euro skeptics it also appears that he's driving a wedge between britain and other e.u. member states andrew farmer. london. and our european parliament member and deputy leader of the u.k. independence party paul not all he says the prime minister is once again just trying to delay solving the longstanding share. the point is that renegotiation is going to be nigh on impossible we've had. the presence of the european council you've had georgia manuel but also you've had as schultz who's the president of the european parliament you've had the prime minister you the list can go on of all of these people who are saying that britain cannot cherry pick this is an attempt by cameron to kick this issue with the long grass we're talking about

a referendum five years down the line and it's all dependent on whether he wins the next general election or not and we know that if you look at the polls today it's showing quite clearly that campbell struggled to win the election so i do think that this is an attempt to kick into the long grass and quite frankly this man has lied before on referendums he gave the casting doubt and say that we were friends and on our membership of lisbon he went back on that referendum pledge so i don't think he can be trusted on this issue. it's six twenty pm moscow time this is artsy the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu did win the country's parliamentary election this week but he suffered a serious setback and the results gave his right wing likud party the naresh to victories with just thirty one out of one hundred twenty seats now and netanyahu will have to struggle to form a broad and stable coalition to govern israel and that could be a challenge as other rightwing and orthodox religious parties one half the seats in

the parliament i mean while some analysts take all hopes on the obama administration influencing netanyahu to back off new settlements and restart peace talks with the palestinians a peace activist campaigning for a two state solution says the likud party reelection will delay this prospect even further. finds himself leading a party that offering a very platform actually no platform at all but they have not presented a program a party program to address a lot of the issues that are concerning israeli citizens from the left and the right and are dividing them and when you think about the prospects for this government leading a policy of more settlement expansion and indeed even annexation of the occupied territories in the west bank i think that it would lead not only to a growing pressure in friction with the united states and president obama with the european union and with the palestinian population but it will also lead to

a growing disappointment in these really public that. is still supporting and i believe will still support. its uphold its right to peace and security which can only be manifested and realized through the two state solution. now prime minister dmitri medvedev has slammed washington's move to sanction a number of russian officials for alleged crimes which no court has found them guilty of speaking to c.n.n. their russian premier said the magnitsky bill passed on capitol hill falls outside of international law and only aggravates relations between russia and the u.s. . each country has the right to deny any country citizen an entry visa to his territory this is something normal something that corresponds with international conventions without having to explain the

reasons for it the united states could and still can get any russian officials entrance to america the same way they can examine their accounts or whatever else they have in america this is exactly what russia can do as well but when it becomes a public campaign with congress saying it will draw up a list of individuals who have been involved in a crime what do you think it is if not an extra judicial execution of the convicts these individuals without any trial or prosecution but. if i see joining us here in r.t. barack obama has been sworn into office this week officially beginning his second term as the u.s. president now during his inauguration speech he once again pledged to promote world peace by supporting democracy but many still wonder if he'll be any better at keeping his promises the second time around. he's escalated the wars in afghanistan he's escalated the drone attacks around the world so i'm certainly skeptical

possibly now that he's in his second term he will stop and think about things but from what i've seen there's been no real activity towards drawing down our military you know as an american i have trouble keeping track of where our troops are these days where we're intervening and so for me to try and predict where it's happening not to mention that there are secret operations going on around the world. do we have our troops in over one hundred countries and we must we intervene in the election processes in other places so there's not really any real. activity to do things other than militarily i'm actually worried that other countries you know they see how we do things and they may. go you know go towards the opposite of freedom the opposite of democracy. or i lost the fight if you had online to auntie dot com right now for example in search of

a better life one frenchman officer himself assailant a monk replica of the amazon website you can log on to find out if his plans paid zero. plus deficit lots of fried havoc on australia's east coast forcing authorities to declare a disaster just weeks after a killer heatwave it online you can find all the details on that if you like. but now internet mogul kim dot com founder of a controversial and now banned fall sharing service he says he's engulfed in a major political power play and the closure of the mega upload website caused uproar among international online freedom activists a dot com told r.t. that he believes the american government went out of its way to track him and to prosecute him. i'm a businessman i'm driven by the success of achieving something in the business world ok that's not a crime there's nothing wrong with that the government is quite exposed here

because. in was completely prosecutorial abuse and overreach and ignoring due process ignoring our rights spying on us illegal search warrants illegal restraining orders illegal spying going to the hall picture when you look at it shows that this was an urgent mission done in a rush to take them down i want them to go and it was a political decision to do that. you can watch the full interview with kim dotcom here on our eighteen of forty five is here but up next though hope you can stay with us for we join the free diving champion on her search but in a piece but she looks for it in the dark depths of russia's caves this isn't.

right wing t.v. host glenn beck is going to build his own utopia back plans to put together a massive social experiment building his own city which will be totally independent from the evil grasp of government and the outside world where residents will have to learn how to survive on their own make their own things and grow their own food the future city called independence usa will be based on libertarian principles with hints of iran flavor there will be no handouts and no help for the self-sufficiency minded residents but beck may need some help himself because building the city could cost about two billion dollars the thing is that commentators about politics like glenn beck and you horse truly have a very easy job it is easy to point out what is wrong with society but it is another thing entirely to try to change it and i want to salute clint beck for

actually doing something and putting his money where his ideological mouth is now why would i want to live in the i and rand paradise of independence usa under the rule of lord beck no no i wouldn't taking marching orders from a tiny portly man known for crying on camera doesn't suit me but if you're a hardcore libertarian here is your chance to make all of your dreams come true but that's just my opinion. so the project is called the mistress of basically she looks like the silhouette of a woman on the wall. spirits in the cave.

she lives there it's true she does exist and you'll get the chance to meet her. you know being serious. the cave entrance is. to be sure it's the longest gypsum crystal cave in the world . more than five kilometers long and it's the longest water cave in europe. some say it might even become the longest of europe. did i tell you that i. see. our estimate.